Aylestone Voice

At least with smokers the butts can be swept up. Don't get me started on discarded chewing gum. Bobby I know you will not see it but the pathways at the OLM are pristine at present - I just wonder how long it will be before it is spoilt by gum.

I have heard that the old cinema will be offered gratis to Bobby47. The men in suits/powers that be have read that he is a Commercial Road man through and through so they decided that to give him somewhere to recuperate on his travails up and down the road was the perfect option for a pretty useless building. They will also provide some white boards so that he can write out his pearls of wisdom and a neon sign. As I am also a daily user of Commercial Road I have agreed pop in occasionally to mop his brow whilst he ponders the incompetence's of the Council and its cohorts and also to provide him with news from the Old Livestock Market.

I popped up today but due to the exorbitant prices my wallet stayed shut.

But I did notice that inside the space has almost entirely been divided up into little stores - Brantano shoes - Mountain Warehouse - Books - Bedding - Woollen Mill - etc.

I know there has been a debate about the OLM and its impact and I know some of these stores are already in town but there would be less empty shops if these were in town and Wyevale remained as a garden centre and not a shopping centre.

What do you think? Should/can the Council do anything about it?

dippy - get into town! Fat Face and Clarks are shut

The Council do not run or get the income from the car parking at the Old Market

Bobby - your regards are reciprocated. If anything is going to drive me to drink it is reading your ramblings!!

It is fairly busy

Loads of those I spoke to said it was because there was no prospect of bumping into Bobby47. I think I saw him leaning on the bull in High Town gently weeping!!!!!

Bobby sometimes your cynicism does depress me and you may be right about egotistic public services. But, and I know you will all say its a done deal, it remains a possibility that consent to knock down the Bath Street buildings can be refused as can the planning application for the new fire station. The Planning Committee does not always do what it is told/recommended even though there is a conservative majority. Are we just going to give up while there is still that chance? To that end we must go to this "consultation" and voice our thoughts and then follow it through with the planning application. Stranger things have happened.

Of course it is box ticking but it does give us the opportunity to speak to them directly.

There are questions, such as what is wrong with the existing building given they are proposing to reduce the engine/staff numbers, and we can see the rubbish design they have proposed

Early notice of an event

Details just published

As a Bulls fan I don't really care that much about the Premier League - just so long as Liverpool don't win it!!!

Nice slip - Stevie Gerrard!!!

OK but that depends on whether, as I noted before, the Highways Agency are telling the truth. They always do don't they!

I am not defending the Council just raising the question.

In any event HFH hardly matter in the bigger picture

What frustrates me is that in this County it takes just so long for things to happen. For how many years have people requested a by pass. The Council want a by pass. Either build it or forget it.

I don't think there is much wrong (perhaps they are 50p too high). After all this is not an out of town development like Holmer Road. It is city centre and in every other city you have to pay. However Waitrose customers may have a beef as supermarkets are usually free for at least 2 hours.

"If you build it they will come"

I know the Council have a bad reputation but to imply as Here for Hereford do that the Highways Agency are the paragons of truth and integrity is taking it a bit far in my view! Their left and rights hands are even further apart than the Council's - if that is possible.

If Here for Hereford want support then they have to come out and say exactly who they are (no mention on their website) and what their aims are. I suspect that they are an anti development anti bypass group but that is just a guess on what I heave read.

according to the Hereford Times the future cover in Hereford is proposed as:-

"As proposed, full-time 24/7 first response fire and rescue fire cover at Hereford fire station comes down to a single appliance and no more than seven fire fighters on a shift".

I may be missing the point but why then do we need a new fire station?

I don't bet and agree that their shops don't add much to the centre but I see this more in the context of a national company seeing Hereford as a place where they can invest and do business. Yes they will make a profit and take money away but there will be a few jobs and we won't have an empty couple of shops. It is a shame that they could not have gone into the site a few doors away but the owners of that are so short sighted that they want a tenant on board before they rebuild

Now the Old Market is opening hopefully some of the landlords in the city centre will review the rents they charge so that all those local people, who we are constantly told want to open shops but can't afford it, may well get their chance

Added only for you all to read the last bit

Hereford Times today

New nursing home in Colwall

. 8:01am Thursday 24th April 2014 in News .

PLANS for a nursing-home in Colwall have been given the green light.

Blue Cedar Homes were yesterday (Wednesday) granted permission to build the 46-bed home on land off Walwyn Road.

The proposal also includes 25 new homes, comprising of 12 sheltered housing units.

The approval means that an existing bottling plant at the site will be demolished.

The plant was built in 1892 and, up until 2010, was home to Malvern Water Enterprise.

The application was recommended for refusal because, even though the plant is not a listing building, it has "heritage value."

But, nine councillors gave the proposal the thumbs-up with only five voting against it.

"I agree the bottling plant has history, but the developer is trying to supply what the people want," said Councillor Dave Greenow.

"If the locals are happy, we need to listen to them."

However, Cllr Mark Hubbard said that the building does have local significance.

"I don't think it is a shell of a building, I think it is all there," said Cllr Hubbard.

"What has happened to society when we say, 'yeah, lets knock everything down'."

The form is on the webpage of the application where it says "Make a comment on this application"

Costs of development including S106 and price for land too much for them

Shame on anyone who tries to link the decision to sell a site for development with the holocaust

Because that is what they asked for??

It seems to be around public order and police finances. In reality it is about fairness. Why should it be that the cold food shops - Lunchbox, petrol station etc. can be open until dawn if they want but the hot food places cannot?

What are the reasons the police and the council give for there being more problems with customers who want hot food as opposed to cold food.

After all I expect the area still needs to be policed. What is needed is for one of the hot food shops to apply to amend their licencing hours and then for the matter to be debated.

But reading between the lines and previous posts would not the ward member have supported, or at least not objected!, to this ultimately.

As to getting rid of the tories well we will have to wait and see in 2015 but I would not see IOC, the indies or the Libs as saviours. History tells us that what politicians do in opposition is very different to what they do when in power!!